The Pine-tree coast . NOIUII PIEB \M> BEACH. 94 THE PINE-TREE COAST. Not long ago my gossip Dixey,— rest his soul! — who knew every kernel ofsand on the coast, was telling me about the great gale of 1851 — the same onewhich swept away Minots lighthouse as if it had been a confectioners pagodaon a show-cake, instead of a tower of iron, with iron columns deeply imbeddedin solid rock. Man! said old Dixey to me, throwing off his habitual apathyat the bare recollection of that fearful night, man alive! you couldnt seeneither pier for three mortal hours, — yes, and more too. Breaker arter breaker
The Pine-tree coast . NOIUII PIEB \M> BEACH. 94 THE PINE-TREE COAST. Not long ago my gossip Dixey,— rest his soul! — who knew every kernel ofsand on the coast, was telling me about the great gale of 1851 — the same onewhich swept away Minots lighthouse as if it had been a confectioners pagodaon a show-cake, instead of a tower of iron, with iron columns deeply imbeddedin solid rock. Man! said old Dixey to me, throwing off his habitual apathyat the bare recollection of that fearful night, man alive! you couldnt seeneither pier for three mortal hours, — yes, and more too. Breaker arter breaker. RETIRED LOBSTERMAN. drove right over em, full chisel; card away three of them biggest graniteblocks you see on the top tier, weighing seven ton apiece, and hove*em interthe channel sames a boy would a brickbat. There they be now. Snappedcopper bolts [the blocks of stone are strongly bolted together] tew inches thick,like that, the old man finished, suiting the action to the word, by breakingin two a chip he held in his hand, to show me how easily the thing was done. For years the occurrence was talked about as one that might not happenagain in a lifetime; but in the winter of 1888-89, I myself saw the seas break AT KENNEB1 NKPORT. over both piers from end to end during a violent blow from the northeast, andthis time a wide breach waa made in the solid granite wall of the north pier,through which cataracts of water rush at every tide, thus endangering the safetjof the whole This river, which, when full, is charming, and when empty, only a crookedditch, is the aquatic playgr
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